Globalization and Postmodernism

Author: Wang Zhihe
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Publish Date: 2003-09-01
Features: Postmodernism is the most influential intellectual movement of the 20th century worldwide. Its emergence and popularity marked the collapse of the modern worldview that had dominated the West for centuries. The profound shock postmodernism has had on Western society is self-evident, and for the Chinese intellectual community, which has had a complex relationship with the West or Western modernization for a hundred years, it was also a significant shock. In the 1990s, more scholars began to pay attention to the new development form of postmodernism, namely constructive postmodernism. At the same time, reflections were also carried out on the positive meanings contained in deconstructive postmodernism, in order to gain a more comprehensive understanding of postmodernism. The author of this book has been engaged in the study of constructive...